Preda Fair Trade, Philippines

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called “absolute poverty” Every year 15 million children die of hunger. For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years. Throughout the 1990′s […]

Korean Intern. August 2012 I finished the Korean fair trade market analysis and visited two handicrafts producers of fair trade office. One of them was a bag sewer. He had one small room to work and two tiny rooms for his family. But his life standard was much worse than that now, when he worked […]

Brazilian Fair Trade Producer Organizations Come Out Against Fair Trade USA¹s Fair Trade For All Initiative June 12, 2012 by Phyllis Robinson We received a copy of the following letter (translated from the original Portuguese) from the Association of Fair Trade Producer Organizations of Brazil, sent last month to Paul Rice, President of Fair Trade […]

Dublin, Ireland – Juanito Hacinto is a poor man in Bataan, Philippines. He is a member of the Aeta indigenous people. He sat with his wife Nita, and their three children under a mango tree to hear our message that the Preda Fair Trade organisation, Profairtrade, will pay 100% higher for their mango fruit so […]